Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act
Latest action · Nov 16, 2006 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11067-11069)
Progress
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- IntroducedNov 16, 2006
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act - Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to provide an additional 100,000 incremental vouchers for tenant-based rental housing assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in FY2007.
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to direct: (1) each participating jurisdiction to use Home Investments Partnership (HOME) grant funds to provide affordable housing to individuals or families whose income is 30% or lower than the area median income (extremely low-income); and (2) direct the Secretary to allocate HOME funds to such jurisdictions on a specified pro-rata basis.
Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to: (1) extend to FY2011 the authorization of appropriations for the Public and Assisted Housing Crime and Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP); (2) set aside specified amounts for the Office of Policy Development and Research; (3) identify activities eligible for grant funds; and (4) require the Office to review research to assess strategies likely to be effective in preventing and reducing violent and drug-related crimes in public and federally assisted low-income housing.
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress shall create a national affordable housing trust fund to supply 1.5 million additional affordable housing units over the next 10 years, especially for extremely low-income and very low-income families.
Repeals multiyear procurement authority for the F-22A Raptor Fighter Aircraft.
Prohibits the Secretary of Energy from implementing the advanced research program for fossil fuels.
Prohibits the Secretary of Commerce from awarding new Advanced Technology Program grants under the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 16, 2006Introduced in Senate
- Nov 16, 2006Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S11067-11069)
- Nov 16, 2006Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S11065-11067)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Housing and Community Development.
- Affordable housing
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Authorization
- Commerce
- Commercialization
- Crime prevention
- Defense budgets
- Defense procurement
- Drug abuse
- Drug law enforcement
- Economics and Public Finance
- Energy
- Energy research
- Federal aid to housing
- Fighter aircraft
- Fossil fuels
- Government spending reductions
- Government trust funds
- Grants-in-aid
- High technology
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing subsidies
- Joint ventures
- Low-income housing
- Manufacturing industries
- Rent
- Research and development
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- Violence
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 16, 2006Introduced in Senate
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